Party members means that there is combat, of course! There are locations with random encounters, others with touch encounters, and also some safe areas without encounters! The game uses a slightly modified RPG Maker XP standard battle system with first person view of the battleside and four active party members, but it offers the opportunity to switch party members during battles. This ragtag bunch of crazy guys and girls at first is created because each charactes has his/her own personal reason or quest, but later they will learn to cooperate and be friends despite their different origins. Speaking about friends, the game is a party-based jrpg: besides Catie/Boxxy we have Anonymous from the first game, a member of the infamous 4chan tribe, Eddie, a Wikipedia guard, Til, a hipster girl from Tumblr, Shift, a YouTube resident, and Tyalie from GameFAQs. The game includes various endings, including a secret weird epilogue (also called "False Ending") that was reminiscent of Evangelion!ĭespite the humor this is still a classic jrpg so expect some serious battles! Here we are fighting various enemies in the arena. And this is just the beginning of an epic journey to save the internet, filled with surprises and secrets! Oh yes, despite the apparent premise of being "just" a little Boxxy fan-game this is a real classic long jrpg adventure, that despite the semi-satirical representation of the internet it features battles, puzzles, sidequests, optional boss fights (eighteen!), and the classic journey about friendship and making new friends. decide to set aside their differences and work together, Catie, as the queen of a small forum (see the previous adventure), is on her way to the peace conference. until an unknown force starts wiping sites and turning users into glitched, zombie-like abominations! So the leasers of the sites. And just like in the real internet, these various places and their leaders are involved petty political struggles. Uhm, should I trust the clone of the good old Steve from Minecraft? BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm sees the return of the heroine in this immense virtual world that represent the internet: the various websites are the city states of this fantasy world, from Reddit to Tumblr, from TvTropes to Youtube, and so on. The game is apparently unavailable now, but you can read the whole story HERE. But let's start the story from the beginning: BoxxyQuest: The Shifting Spires saw Catie as an amnesiac heroine fighting the masked villain Boxxyfan, that wanted to destroy the Boxxysphere with the help of the thrill-seeker wanderer Anonymous. This part includes sidequests, the possibility to collect plushies and buy and decorate a house in Etsy. This part is an extra adventure where the Social Justice Warriors (a group of secondary villains that you encounter on the main quest) have kidnapped some Furries from two villages and taken over Newgrounds. But, SURPRISE! In 2021 was realeased a DLC, also available here, that takes place in the post game and opens up two new areas- Newgrounds and Etsy. However, new players are officially encouraged to start with The Gathering Storm, that is available here, on Itch.io and Steam for free since 2020. Uhmmm good questions, pity that I've no good answers for you! This is NOT the first game about Catie and her bizarre adventures, this is in fact a sequel to BoxxyQuest: The Shifted Spires, the developer’s first project made in 2012.
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